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Walden: On Thu, 13 December 2001, "Walden H. Leverich" wrote: > As I understand it CA Express has a dynamic port mapping scheme. There is > one port (8477?) that is static and the job of that port is to hand out the > ports for the other connections. So when telnet wants to connect it connects > to 8477 and says "What's the telnet port?" The answer is (usually) 23 and > then telnet connects to port 23. I suspect you're referring to the server mapper (as-svrmap tcp) service that normally runs on port 449; port 8477 would normally have the as-netdrive service. Essentially, you connect to port 449 and send in a name from the service table such as "telnet" or "ddm" (case-sensitive and ASCII) and it returns a 32-bit binary port number for that service. To see it in action, just set up a comm trace and watch any PC connect. I have no idea how the same is handled on other platforms; it'd sure make a nice standard. > Is there a way to add new things into that process? I have pc processes that > need to connect to the AS/400, can I use this port-mapping routine for my > own use too? I'd rather be flexible rather than hard-code the ports. You can add entries to the system service table by using the Add Service Table Entry (ADDSRVTBLE) command. Really pretty simple once you've done it a couple times and works well. I use it to register my own sockets applications for AS/400 networks -- just have to remember to use QDCXLATE or some other means to make sure I'm talking ASCII. You might also consider using the Add TCP/IP Port Restriction (ADDTCPPORT) command to keep your chosen ports from being used by OS/400 for other purposes, and, of course, choose port numbers that will play nice with others. Tom Liotta -- Tom Liotta The PowerTech Group, Inc. 19426 68th Avenue South Kent, WA 98032 Phone 253-872-7788 Fax 253-872-7904 http://www.400Security.com ___________________________________________________ The ALL NEW CS2000 from CompuServe Better! Faster! More Powerful! 250 FREE hours! Sign-on Now! http://www.compuserve.com/trycsrv/cs2000/webmail/
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